The SB dry cleaning system replaces the most costly operations
in the wire rod cleaning process (including acid and other
aggressive wet chemicals), generating dramatic cost savings,
environmental benefits and improvement of productivity.
The SB system is reported to be the most innovative rod
dry cleaning method that removes excess of rod scale and
rust, converting over 95 per cent of rod scale into useful
micro-abrading medium, providing extreme efficiency and
simplicity in rod dry cleaning applications, H/C and L/C,
including 0.98%C.

Continuously liberated rod scale provides, in-line, an extremely
reactive 5-micron size texture enabling powder lubricant to be
chemically and mechanically interlocked to the rod surface,
forming a hard and consistent anti-wear and anti-friction
conversion coating that is found to perform comparable to or
better than zinc phosphate.